std.string.removechars is now deprecated.
https://dlang.org/changelog/2.075.0.html#pattern-deprecate
What is now the most efficient way to remove characters from a
string, if only one type of character needs to be removed?
```
// old
auto old(string s) {
return s.removechars(",").to!int;
}
// new?
auto newnew(string s) {
return s.filter!(a => a != ',').to!int;
}
```
cheers,
Johan

std.string.removechars is now deprecated.
https://dlang.org/changelog/2.075.0.html#pattern-deprecate
What is now the most efficient way to remove characters from a
string, if only one type of character needs to be removed?
```
// old
auto old(string s) {
return s.removechars(",").to!int;
}
// new?
auto newnew(string s) {
return s.filter!(a => a != ',').to!int;
}
```

Well, in general, I'd guess that the fastest way to remove all instances of
a character from a string would be std.array.replace with the replacement
being the empty string, but if you're feeding it to std.conv.to rather than
really using the resultant string, then filter probably is faster, because
it won't allocate. Really though, you'd have to test for your use case and
see how fast a given solution is.
- Jonathan M Davis

std.string.removechars is now deprecated.
https://dlang.org/changelog/2.075.0.html#pattern-deprecate
What is now the most efficient way to remove characters from a
string, if only one type of character needs to be removed?
```
// old
auto old(string s) {
return s.removechars(",").to!int;
}
// new?
auto newnew(string s) {
return s.filter!(a => a != ',').to!int;
}
```

Well, in general, I'd guess that the fastest way to remove all
instances of a character from a string would be
std.array.replace with the replacement being the empty string,

Is that optimized for empty replacement?

but if you're feeding it to std.conv.to rather than really
using the resultant string, then filter probably is faster,
because it won't allocate. Really though, you'd have to test
for your use case and see how fast a given solution is.

Yeah :(
I am disappointed to see functions being deprecated, without an
extensive documentation of how to rewrite them for different
usage of the deprecated function. It makes me feel that no deep
thought went into removing them (perhaps there was, I can't tell).
One has to go and browse through the different version _release
notes_ to find any documentation on how to rewrite them. It would
have been much better to add it (aswell) to the deprecated
function documentation.
I have the same problem for std.string.squeeze. The release notes
only say how to rewrite the `squeeze()` case, but not the
`squeeze("_")` use case. I guess `uniq!("a=='_' && a == b")` ?
Great improvement?
- Johan

std.string.removechars is now deprecated.
https://dlang.org/changelog/2.075.0.html#pattern-deprecate
What is now the most efficient way to remove characters from a
string, if only one type of character needs to be removed?
```
// old
auto old(string s) {
return s.removechars(",").to!int;
}
// new?
auto newnew(string s) {
return s.filter!(a => a != ',').to!int;
}
```

Well, in general, I'd guess that the fastest way to remove all
instances of a character from a string would be std.array.replace with
the replacement being the empty string,

Is that optimized for empty replacement?

but if you're feeding it to std.conv.to rather than really using the
resultant string, then filter probably is faster, because it won't
allocate. Really though, you'd have to test for your use case and see
how fast a given solution is.

Performance-wise, I would use neither, as both autodecode (removechars
by using the opaque/slow foreach decoding) and reencode.
Especially if you are removing a single ascii char.

I am disappointed to see functions being deprecated, without an
extensive documentation of how to rewrite them for different usage of
the deprecated function. It makes me feel that no deep thought went into
removing them (perhaps there was, I can't tell).
One has to go and browse through the different version _release notes_
to find any documentation on how to rewrite them. It would have been
much better to add it (aswell) to the deprecated function documentation.

This should have been done. A deprecation in this manner where there is
no exact path forward is confusing and unnecessary. If we are
deprecating a function, the person deprecating the function should have
had a replacement in mind. The only way the message could be worse is if
it said "please use other functions in Phobos".
-Steve

I am disappointed to see functions being deprecated, without an
extensive documentation of how to rewrite them for different
usage of the deprecated function. It makes me feel that no deep
thought went into removing them (perhaps there was, I can't tell).
One has to go and browse through the different version _release
notes_ to find any documentation on how to rewrite them. It would
have been much better to add it (aswell) to the deprecated
function documentation.
I have the same problem for std.string.squeeze. The release notes
only say how to rewrite the `squeeze()` case, but not the
`squeeze("_")` use case. I guess `uniq!("a=='_' && a == b")` ?
Great improvement?

Normally, when something is deprecated, replacing it is fairly
straightforward, and documentation usually isn't need at all (simply
pointing someone to the new function generally suffices). Unfortunately,
that isn't really the case here. It was decided years ago that they pattern
functions in std.string should be replaced by regex stuff, but no one ever
did it. It was recently decided to just rip them out anyway, which I have
very mixed feelings about, since I agree that they should go, but how to
replace their functionality in your own code is not necessarily obvious. We
certainly didn't provide functions that did the same thing but took regexes,
which was originally the idea for what would replace them but was never
implemented. IIRC, the only reason that there's _any_ explanation is because
the person who created the PR was pushed to create some examples.
The way this was handled is not very typical of how deprecations are
handled.
- Jonathan M Davis

std.string.removechars is now deprecated.
https://dlang.org/changelog/2.075.0.html#pattern-deprecate
What is now the most efficient way to remove characters from a
string, if only one type of character needs to be removed?
```
// old
auto old(string s) {
return s.removechars(",").to!int;
}
// new?
auto newnew(string s) {
return s.filter!(a => a != ',').to!int;
}
```
cheers,
Johan